Vocabulary
What is a group of the same type of organisms living in the same area?
population
What is a population that gets eaten by organisms from another population called?
resource population
What happens to a population if there are more births than deaths?
Increases
What is the term for all living and nonliving things interacting in a particular area?
Ecosystem
What is a term that describes when two or more populations use the same resource, such as the same food source?
competition
What must be true about births and deaths for a population size to be stable?
They have to be the same
What do we call a small part that is meant to show what the whole is like?
sample
What is the term that describes the result of one cause leading to an effect that causes one or more effects?
Indirect Effect
How does the size of a resource population affect its consumer population?
The larger the resource population, the more energy storage molecules are available for its consumer population.
What is the name of the molecule that organisms use to release energy to survive?
Energy Storage Molecule
What are living things, such as plants, animals, and bacteria called?
Organisms
What is it called when two or more populations use the same resource?
Competition
What is a population that eats organisms from another population called?
What is the term that describes when something stays mostly the same over time?
Stability
How can the size of a population be affected by connected populations in a food web?
A change to one population can affect the size of another, even if they are not directly connected.